ePearl stands for Electronic Portfolio Encouraging Active Reflective Learning. It is an online electronic portfolio that is much more than just storage of electronic files.
If you would like to try this out for free, contact Ron Nordstrom. If you already have an account, Log in Here.
ePEARL promotes:
The creation of general learning goals for a term of year, or for a specific work/artifact
Reflection
Peer, parent and teacher feedback on the portfolio or on a specific artifact
ePEARL offers two environments: the Work Space and the Portfolio.
The Work Space
The ePEARL Work Space screen guides students through the creation process, allowing enough flexibility for truly creative work and just enough scaffolding to keep students on the right track. The Work Space offers a text editor and an audio recorder for the creation of work. Readings, music pieces, or oral presentations may be recorded. The software also offers the ability to attach work completed using other software, so it can accommodate any kind of digital work a student creates in class, including scanned images of paper-based work.
Before work is created, students are encouraged to set their goals for this work, and may attach learning logs, evaluation rubrics and study plans to keep track of their learning process as it takes place. After the creation of work, students are asked to reflect on their performance and strategies, and to use these to adjust their goals for the next work. The sharing of work with peers or teachers is supported so that students may solicit feedback on drafts of work. The Work Space template is similar to that of the Portfolio entries so that information is easily transferred from one environment to the other.
The Portfolio
The Portfolio environment within ePEARL is where students collect their selected artifacts - created either from the Work Space or from outside of the tool. This collection process allows students to reflect on their work, its relationship to other work, and on their own advancements. Self-regulation is also supported when students create new goals for future work or modify learning behavior based on their reflections on a particular piece they have collected. Sharing with peers and parents is encouraged and teachers have automatic access to view all of their students' ePEARLs.
ePearl
ePearl stands for Electronic Portfolio Encouraging Active Reflective Learning. It is an online electronic portfolio that is much more than just storage of electronic files.
If you would like to try this out for free, contact Ron Nordstrom. If you already have an account, Log in Here.
ePEARL promotes:
- The creation of general learning goals for a term of year, or for a specific work/artifact
- Reflection
- Peer, parent and teacher feedback on the portfolio or on a specific artifact
ePEARL offers two environments: the Work Space and the Portfolio.The Work Space
The ePEARL Work Space screen guides students through the creation process, allowing enough flexibility for truly creative work and just enough scaffolding to keep students on the right track. The Work Space offers a text editor and an audio recorder for the creation of work. Readings, music pieces, or oral presentations may be recorded. The software also offers the ability to attach work completed using other software, so it can accommodate any kind of digital work a student creates in class, including scanned images of paper-based work.Before work is created, students are encouraged to set their goals for this work, and may attach learning logs, evaluation rubrics and study plans to keep track of their learning process as it takes place. After the creation of work, students are asked to reflect on their performance and strategies, and to use these to adjust their goals for the next work. The sharing of work with peers or teachers is supported so that students may solicit feedback on drafts of work. The Work Space template is similar to that of the Portfolio entries so that information is easily transferred from one environment to the other.
The Portfolio
The Portfolio environment within ePEARL is where students collect their selected artifacts - created either from the Work Space or from outside of the tool. This collection process allows students to reflect on their work, its relationship to other work, and on their own advancements. Self-regulation is also supported when students create new goals for future work or modify learning behavior based on their reflections on a particular piece they have collected. Sharing with peers and parents is encouraged and teachers have automatic access to view all of their students' ePEARLs.||